Miguel Tinker Salas is a professor of Latin American history at Pomona College and author of the book The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Society and Venezuela.

Nikolas Kozloff is the author of Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left. www.nikolaskozloff.com

Andres Conteris is the director of the Program on the Americas for Nonviolence International. He also works for Democracy Now en Espanol. Andres Conteris spent several months in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after the 2009 coup.